Hospital
['hɒspɪt(ə)l] or ['hɑspɪtl]
Definition
(noun.) a health facility where patients receive treatment.
(noun.) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care.
Checker: Louie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
(n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
(a.) Hospitable.
Checker: Lola
Definition
n. a building for the reception and treatment of the old the sick and hurt &c. or for the support and education of the young.—n. Hos′pitaller one of a charitable brotherhood for the care of the sick in hospitals: one of an order of knights commonly called Knights of St John (otherwise called Knights of Rhodes and afterwards of Malta) who about 1048 built a hospital for the care and cure of pilgrims at Jerusalem.—Hospital Saturday or Sunday days set apart for the collection of funds on behalf of hospitals.—Convalescent hospital one intermediate between the ordinary hospital and the patient's own home; Cottage hospital a small establishment where hospital treatment is carried on at little expense and with simple arrangements; Lock hospital one for the treatment of venereal diseases; Magdalen hospital an institution for the reclamation of fallen women; Marine or Naval hospital a special hospital for sick sailors or for men in the naval service; Maternity hospital one for women in labour.
Checker: Mara
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream that you are a patient in a hospital. you will have a contagious disease in your community, and will narrowly escape affliction. If you visit patients there, you will hear distressing news of the absent.
Checker: Sigmund
Examples
- No--let the new Hospital be joined with the old Infirmary, and everything go on as it might have done if I had never come. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will drive to the Hospital and see Mr. Lydgate there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At the hospital we went in and I carried the bag. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- An ambulance took me to the American hospital. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But he'll be gone before you can get him to hospital. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have for some time felt that I should open this subject with you in relation to our Hospital, continued Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Drink put him in the hospital, guv'ner, and the hospital put him--in a glass-case, I HAVE heerd, Phil replies mysteriously. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But what's the idea of a hospital without a doctor? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I had a martini alone, paid for it, picked up the box of chocolate at the outside counter and walked on home toward the hospital. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- About five miles out we found their field hospital abandoned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the Children's Hospital, the gallant steed, the Noah's ark, yellow bird, and the officer in the Guards, were made as welcome as their child-owner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And she wouldn't go into the Hospital, and so she died. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They'll send you to a hospital. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We drove a long way through the streets, until we came to one of the large hospitals. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She was particularly delighted when Clennam assured her that there were hospitals, and very kindly conducted hospitals, in Rome. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All sick and disabled soldiers will be left in these hospitals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The air in crowded buildings, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Newspapers and magazines were full of the remarkable X-ray achievements of surgeons in charge of the various European war hospitals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were hospitals beyond the river. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Circumstances had called me to London; here I heard talk that symptoms of the plague had occurred in hospitals of that city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Pestilence and disease were met by Imperial hospitals and government physicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But so few of the soldiers had babies in the hospitals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Surgeons in charge of hospitals will report convalescents as fast as they become fit for duty. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All the hospitals should be moved to-day to Chancellorsville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One reads in the report of the Vice Commission that many public hospitals in Chicago refuse to care for venereal diseases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She is talking cottages and hospitals with him, said Mrs. Cadwallader, whose ears and power of interpretation were quick. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He founded hospitals and public gardens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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